The Audacity Of Hope

Hope may be audacious, but it has its limits. For one, it’s a crappy method of birth control. For another, it tends to fail catastrophically when it goes up against physics.

Which is a lesson that this woman almost tragically learned.

She’s one of those #Occupy idiots currently trying to shut down the ports on the West Coast in an attempt to… I don’t quite know their point. It’s mainly a power play, the protesters trying to show that they have the ability to do what they want, when they want, where they want, and nobody can do anything to stop them.

Anyway, some of those idiots thought a good way of doing it would be to stand on the railroad tracks. This prize, “Lotus,” had an even better idea to assert her moral superiority over the folks trying to earn a day’s pay at the port:

She stuck her four-year-old child on the tracks.

Now, my father worked for the railroad for years. I grew up near an active train track. And I’ve heard enough anecdotal evidence (such as anti-war idiot Brian Willson and numerous stories of cars stopping on railroad crossings) to know that trains don’t stop easily. There are these concepts — “physics,” “inertia,” “momentum,” and the like — that I’m sure Lotus didn’t learn in college or even high school, and it was nothing less than miraculous that she didn’t get to see her little pride and joy smeared across the landscape.

Again, this is a reassertion of one of my favorite points: so many of the left’s tactics are based on the underlying presumption that their opponents are not the amoral monsters they make us out to be, and they routinely risk their lives to prove that these leftists are lying.

“Lotus” needs to be reported to the police for child endangerment, and have her kid (and any others she might have) taken away from her. If they can identify the father, give him custody — he can’t be any worse than a mother who sticks a four-year-old in front of a freight train to make a political point.

Exactly. He’s all about shooting off his big fat leftist mouth about how great OWS is, but manages to skip the reports of the rapes, assaults, public defecation, theft, and child endangerment, not to mention the other people who lost their jobs and businesses – or even their lives as police were diverted to the protests – just so the filthy scum could be accommodated without paying the same insurance and other fees and following the same laws as everyone else.

If anyone needed confirmation that Chico is a two-faced, lying leftist scum of the earth, here’s another.

Anonymous

What, is it mandatory for me to participate in every thread?

OK, I’m issuing the required denunciation of parents playing on train tracks with their kids.

Sooooo. . . . THE BANKS ARE RIGHT!!!!

Also, Adjoran, I can never figure out if you’re drinking too much or too little, but in the end I come down on recommending that you pour yourself a stiff double.